You guys are making this harder than it needs to be. Try this: sync # To make sure nothing else is writing dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=1024 oflag=dsync
You'll get reasonable numbers this way out of dd. -J On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:43:04PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > What you want is this: > sync; > time bash -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1024; sync" > which will actually time the write with the time command. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/